99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

It is not worthy of a speaker of truth to curse people.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith- but I have it -to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

It’s a terrible thing to appear on television – because people think you actually know what you’re talking about!

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

People fall forward to success.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married (say) 'It's the same sex all the time.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.